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The Summer House (2014)

Overview

A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral decadence. The Larsens are a picture perfect family from the German upper-middle class. However, the head of the family, Markus, an architect, lives a secret, bisexual double life as his wife Christine and their eleven-year-old daughter Elisabeth drown in unendurable loneliness. Markus realizes that he has a strong yearning for one of his daughter's school friends, Johannes, 12. He succeeds in getting closer to Johannes and binds the boy to himself with ever-increasing intensity. His wife is desperately aware of the emotional distance of her husband, but only her daughter Elizabeth, reacting to the sexually laden atmosphere, sees through the lies and secrets that she instinctively knows to be an growing, disruptive threat to the entire family
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Curtis Burz profile
Curtis Burz

Director

Cast

Sten Jacobs profile
Sten Jacobs

Markus Larsen

Anna Altmann profile
Anna Altmann

Christine Larsen

Nina Spletstoßer profile
Nina Spletstoßer

Elisabeth Larsen

Jaspar Fuld profile
Jaspar Fuld

Johannes Degenhardt

Stephan Bürgi profile
Stephan Bürgi

Christopher Degenhardt

Sten Jacobs profile
Sten Jacobs

Markus Larsen

Anna Altmann profile
Anna Altmann

Christine Larsen

Nina Spletstoßer profile
Nina Spletstoßer

Elisabeth Larsen

Jaspar Fuld profile
Jaspar Fuld

Johannes Degenhardt

Stephan Bürgi profile
Stephan Bürgi

Christopher Degenhardt

Extra

Release Date

April 15, 2014

Original Language

German

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Focusing Films logo

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Videos

THE SUMMER HOUSE | Official Trailer 2016 thumbnail
THE SUMMER HOUSE | Official Trailer 2016

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